Jack Beresford is a Newsweek Senior Internet Culture & Trends Reporter, based in London, UK. His focus is reporting on trending topics on the Internet, he covers viral stories from around the ...

"Upon reading the problem I actually found myself puzzled." A pizza-based math problem. The second grade homework had many ... of the pie plus a third of the fourth slice each.

Nationally, Maryland fourth graders jumped from 40th to 20th place on reading. There were also small improvements in the national rankings on fourth grade math ... Some problems with test scores ...